Principles of Diagnosis and Management

Question 1

Define “soft tissue injury”

Answer 1

An injury involving skin, subcutaneous tissues, muscle, ligament, tendon, nerve or blood vessel, capsule and/or cartilaginous structures

Question 2

What does the PRICE abbreviation stand for for the management of a soft tissue injury?

Answer 2

Protection
Rest
Ice
Compression
Elevation

Question 3

Define “closed fracture”

Answer 3

Injury whereby the skin is intact, no communication with surface and fracture is uncontaminated

Question 4

Define “open fracture”

Answer 4

Injury whereby soft tissues and fracture breaks the skin, contaminated and there is a risk of infection

Question 5

Define “un-displaced fracture”

Answer 5

A bone break in which cracks in the bone may radiate in several directions but the bone fragments do not separate

Question 6

Define “displaced fracture”

Answer 6

A bone break in which the two ends of the broken bone are separated from one another

Question 7

Define “avulsion fracture”

Answer 7

An injury to the bone in a location where a tendon or ligament attaches to the bone

Question 8

Define “stress fracture”

Answer 8

An injury arising due to repeated abnormal stresses to normal bone